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Sustainability & Climate Science concepts via the use of lovely children books' images.

Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide BuildingThe Book Building
Posted on: January 24, 2007 12:05 PM, by David Ng

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Chris Van Allsburg, "Just a Dream" (over consumption)

So as the truth experiment continues to do its thing, I'm getting ready to give two talks on sustainability and climate science concepts to an audience of visual arts students here at UBC. Specifically, these university students are exploring the techniques and expressive values of drawing and printmaking, so I thought I would colour these talks with a few examples of the art that I'm probably most familiar with - that being kid's books. As well, I'll be working generally with these students on a project, that aims to produce some type of work that would embody these environmentally responsible values.

How's it going to do that? Well, I'm as curious as you are. Guess, we'll all find out in about 3 months time...

For now, enjoy some of the scans I did for the talk (with corresponding concept in brackets), and I urge you to check out the books as well (NOTE, the image for Duck on a Bike can be considered a spoiler, so I'll put that at the end)



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Lois Ehlert, "Fish Eyes. A Book You can Count on" (aesthetics in natural design)




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Ted Harrison, "O' Canada" (global warming in the Polar regions)




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Barbara Reid, "Two by Two" (Biodiversity)




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Sheldon Cohen, "The Hockey Sweater" (Canada's CO2 Emissions)




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Pat Hutchins, "The Wind Blew" (Climatology)




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Satoshi Kitamura, "Captain Toby" (Water as a resource)




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Leo Lionni, "Swimmy" (Ocean Acidification)




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Peter Sis, "Madlenka" (Ecological Footprint)




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Remy Chalip, "Four Fur Feet" (Thermodynamic systems: Earth as an example)




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Shel Silverstein, "The Giving Tree." (Environmental Stewardship)




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William Steig, "Rotten Island" (Tipping Points)




And finally...


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David Shannon, "Duck on a Bike" (Greenhouse gases and carbon neutral choices)

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lovely is just the right word.

Posted by: BRC | January 24, 2007 10:03 PM

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these r amazin'

Posted by: joey smith | October 7, 2008 2:24 PM

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Ah, perfect. This post makes me happy.

Posted by: Christopher Mims | December 30, 2008 9:01 PM

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